Farhan Sadik’s IELTS Speaking Session: Life Behind the Content
How do you fit university, sport and a content creation career into the same day?
That question runs through Farhan Sadik’s IELTS speaking session with Munzereen Shahid. Known online as Liliput Farhan, he appears in a preparation video published by 10 Minute School. The conversation explores his routine, memorable projects and views on social media.
His answers offer a glimpse of the work behind the videos: making time to study, finding ideas in everyday life, responding to audience expectations and deciding who to work with.
For aspiring creators, there are useful lessons about building a career you can sustain. For IELTS learners, the discussion offers something equally practical: familiar experiences that can become material for a thoughtful speaking answer.
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A Busy Day Needs a Clear Purpose
Farhan describes dividing his day into two main blocks:
| Time | Main focus |
|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Exercise, sports with university friends and academic study |
| 12:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. | Content creation and business responsibilities |
He traces his habit of waking early to his school years, including his time at a madrasa and later at cadet college. Structured mornings were already familiar long before content creation became part of his working life.
Still, he makes room for change. Ramadan, different projects and shifting responsibilities can all affect the shape of a day.
His larger point is that a routine needs a purpose. When you know what you want to achieve, it becomes easier to decide what deserves your time.
That is a useful idea for IELTS preparation, too. A goal such as improving your ability to explain opinions gives a study session direction. You can choose a question, record an answer and identify what needs work.
Making Someone’s Evening Better
Farhan describes a simple reason for making entertaining videos: he wants people to feel better after watching them.
Someone opening a social media app may be tired from work, worried about their studies or having a difficult day. A few minutes of entertainment can offer a welcome break.
He recalls feedback from viewers who said his content improved their mood. Those messages give him a personal connection to the people watching.
For creators, that suggests a useful question to ask before filming: what will someone get from this video?
It might be a laugh, a helpful idea, a new perspective or the comfort of seeing an experience they recognise. Having an answer can help shape the content from the beginning.
Finding a Story in a Rickshaw Ride
One of Farhan’s memorable examples is a rickshaw journey from Dhaka University to Uttara.
The slower journey gave him time to notice the city around him. He describes the contrast between high-rise buildings in Banani and nearby communities living in very different conditions.
The trip became an opportunity to observe places and people that might otherwise pass by unnoticed.
He also discusses projects involving teaser recreations and public interactions, including selling flowers. These ideas brought different demands, from matching the energy of an existing production to responding to people in the moment.
For an aspiring creator, there is something useful here: everyday experiences can provide material worth exploring. A familiar route, a conversation or a small experiment may become interesting when you pay attention to the details.
Why Social Media Matters Beyond Entertainment
Farhan’s discussion of social media extends beyond his own videos.
He sees its accessibility as a major change in who gets to publish. People can share entertainment, opinions and educational material without first securing space on television or in another established outlet.
He also reflects on Bangladesh’s July movement, describing how people used social platforms to exchange updates when they felt conventional news coverage was inadequate.
This is his perspective on the events, and it helps explain why he views social media as more than a place to build an audience. It can also be a way for people to document experiences and stay informed about what is happening around them.
Three Pressures Creators Have to Manage
Farhan’s account also covers the less visible difficulties of creating content.
Depending on a Platform
A growing channel can feel secure until something affects its reach or availability.
Farhan raises concerns about copyright issues, platform rules and the possibility of losing access to an audience. His advice is to understand the platforms you use early, while you are building your presence.
Uploading regularly is only part of the work. Understanding the conditions under which that work reaches people matters as well.
Getting Stuck After a Viral Video
A successful video can bring a new kind of pressure: the expectation that you will keep making the same thing.
Farhan describes the risk of becoming trapped by audience demand. A creator may continue repeating a format because it performs well, even after losing interest in it.
Listening to viewers is valuable, but a sustainable career also needs room for curiosity and experimentation. His discussion raises a question worth revisiting: do you still enjoy the work you are becoming known for?
Feeling You Need Better Equipment
Farhan takes a gradual approach to equipment.
Start with the tools you have, including a phone, and improve the setup as the work begins to earn money. That allows experience and income to guide later purchases.
For someone waiting to buy a professional camera before making anything, this is an encouraging place to begin. You can practise explaining an idea, framing a shot and telling a story with the equipment already available to you.
Choosing the People You Create With
Farhan connects collaboration with the kind of career a creator wants to build.
Working with people who care about learning and improving can introduce new skills and make a project more rewarding. Working with people whose only concern is the view count can leave little room for creative development.
His discussion of creative burnout fits naturally into this concern. The people around a project influence how the work feels, how decisions are made and whether the experience leaves you motivated to continue.
He also draws a distinction between creators thinking about their long-term reputation and those pursuing immediate attention. In his view, the first group is more likely to consider the effect their content has on viewers and the relationships they build through their work.
Taken together, these ideas suggest looking beyond a potential collaborator’s audience size. Their working habits, priorities and willingness to learn deserve attention, too.
What IELTS Learners Can Practise
For readers preparing for IELTS, these topics offer a starting point for speaking practice.
A daily routine can lead to an explanation of priorities. A journey can become a story about something you noticed. A question about social media can open a discussion about its benefits and limitations.
Try applying that approach to your own experience:
- Choose a familiar topic, such as your studies, a hobby or a recent journey.
- Answer the question directly.
- Explain your reason and add a relevant example where useful.
- Record yourself and listen for unclear ideas, repeated words or places where you struggle to continue.
Expressions such as creative burnout are useful when they describe exactly what you mean. Learn vocabulary alongside situations where you could naturally use it.
IELTS Speaking is assessed through fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. These give you a more useful basis for reviewing your practice than simply counting advanced words.
Farhan’s discussion gives you several topics to start with. After watching, choose one question and answer it from your own life. Explain what happened, why it mattered and what you think about it now.
For more stories from Bangladeshi test-takers, read Meet the IELTS 9.0 Scorers of Bangladesh.
